Ekavali Khanna

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Ekavali Khanna
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Khanna in 2014
Born
Ekavali

(1980-01-30) 30 January 1980 (age 44)
NationalityIndian
Alma materModern High School Kolkata
OccupationActress
Years active2009 – Present
Parent(s)Arun Chopra

Ekavali Khanna (Hindi: एकावली खन्ना) actress who stars in Bollywood, Hollywood and Bengali films.[1][2]

Early life[edit]

Born in Kolkata, Khanna attended Modern High School and is a graduate of Delhi University. She is of mixed Punjabi and Goan heritage. Khanna divides her time between both Mumbai and Kolkata depending on her work, and culturally identifies as a Bengali.

Career[edit]

Ekavali Khanna made her debut with Kaun Kitne Pani Main, directed by national award winner Nila Madhab Panda in the year 2014. The same year she worked with another national award-winning director Dr. Chandra Prakash Dwivedi in the film Zed Plus as the parallel lead opposite Adil Hussein. In 2014 and 2015 she did two more films: Daasdev by Sudhir Mishra and Satra Ko Shaadi Hai, directed by Arshad Sayed. She also did a guest appearance in Bollywood Diaries directed by K.D Satyam. Her next release in 2015 was Dear Dad, opposite Arvind Swamy, directed by Tanuj Brahmar. In 2017 she acted in Bioscopewallah, directed by Deb Medhkar and Angrezi mein kehte Hain , directed by Harish Vyas for which she won best actor at Oiffa 2018. In 2017 she acted in the Norwegian film What will people say, as Najma she got critically acclaimed globally, the movie directed by Iram Haq was the official entry to the Oscars in 2019.

In 2018 she acted in the Hollywood film 'Line of Descent', directed by Rohit Karn Batra. She also played a pivotal role in Veere Di Wedding, directed by Shashank Ghosh where she stole hearts with her lively Paromita. In the same year she played a role in Chotte Nawab' directed by Kumud Chaudhary, Dark light directed by Mayur Hardas, Yaarjigri directed Amit Joshi, Anaam directed by Ganesh Shetty and Aadhar directed by Suman Ghosh.

She has also appeared in Bangla films like Katmandu, directed by Raj Chakroborty, Dwando' directed by Suman Ghosh, and 'Nirontor', directed by Chandrashish Ray.

Filmography[edit]

Year Title Role Notes Source
2010 Memories in March Ekavali Khanna English film [1]
2013 Ganesh Talkies Dolly Bengali film [3]
2014 Zed Plus Saeeda Hindi film [2]
2014 Khola Hawa Mona Lisa Bengali film [2]
2015 Katmundu Bhanupriya Bengali film [4]
2015 Kaun Kitne Paani Mein Gulabi Hindi film
2016 Bollywood Diaries Raveena Hindi film
2016 Dear Dad Nupur Hindi film
2017 What Will People Say Najma Norwegian [5]
2017 Line of Descent Naima English/Hindi film [6]
2018 Bioscopewala Shobhita Hindi film
2018 Veere Di Wedding Paromita Hindi film
2018 Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain Kiran Batra Hindi film [7]

See also[edit]

Other works[edit]

She also stars in web shows, 'Out of Love, directed by Tigmanshu Dhuliya and Aijaz Khan which is quite popular on Hotstar. Bombay Begums directed by Alankrita Srivastava and Birnila Chatterjee, which is a Netflix series portraying strong women of the society. She has also worked with Apoorva Lakhia for the series Raftaar.

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "IMDb profile 1". IMDb. Retrieved Feb 2015. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "IMDb profile 2". IMDb. Retrieved Feb 2015. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  3. "Ganesh Talkies". gomolo.com. Retrieved Feb 2015. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. "Kath Mundu". All News View. Retrieved Feb 2015. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  5. "The Times Group". epaperbeta.timesofindia.com. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  6. "The Times Group". epaperbeta.timesofindia.com. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  7. "Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain (2018)". IMDB. Retrieved 1 May 2018.


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